Title: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Poet, Playwright and the Artist's Son
Date: 1898
Medium: Graphite and wash with white highlights on paper
Dimensions:35.6 x 25.3 cm
Signed: centre right: JB Yeats 1898
(Irish Watercolours and Drawings in The National Gallery of Ireland, Adrian Le Harivel, ed., 1991)
Credit Line: Purchased, 1932
Object Number: NGI.2942
ProvenancePurchased, Coole Park, Lady Gregory Sale, 1932
Exhibition HistoryW.B. Yeats: Images of a Poet, Manchester; Dublin, 1961
W.B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1965
Paintings and Drawings by John Butler Yeats from the Collection of Senator Michael B. Yeats and the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1972
Irish Watercolours 1675-1925, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, 1976
Irish Watercolours and Drawings, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1991